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    The Love of Stones

    By Tobias Hill

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    'I am following the traces of a great jewel. All its owners are dead, and the jewel is lost...'

    Precious stones are thousands of years old. They pass through the hands of owners and smugglers, merchants and thieves. Often the hands leave no trace, but they are there all the same: they leave impressions, invisible, like atoms of hydrogen drawn to the surface of a diamond.

    The Love of Stones charts three lives linked by one such jewel. Katherine Sterne searches the goldsmiths' quarters and hidden archives of contemporary London, Tokyo and Istanbul, following the trail of a long-lost jewel: a brooch of rubies, diamonds and pearls once worn by Queen Elizabeth I. Two hundred years earlier, a pair of Iraqi Jewish brothers travel to London, their fortunes made by an unearthed jar of mysterious and priceless stones. An epic story spanning two continents and six centuries, The Love of Stones follows three very different people, each in their own way consumed by the same desire. At the heart of their lives is the Three Brethren, the legendary jewel that binds them together in a narrative as clear and irresistible as the facets of a diamond.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateNov 7, 2013
    ISBN9781408844113
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    Tobias Hill

    Poet and writer Tobias Hill (1970-2023) was the author of several works that included poetry, short stories, and novels. His collection of stories, Skin (1997), won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, and he was twice short-listed for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

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    • 4/5
      A journey through obssession, with interesting passages detailing what it's like in modern-day Turkey and Japan as well as 19th century Iraq and Victorian London. The main narrator's voice resembles William Gibson's in _Pattern Recognition_ - for her insightful take on the things that she sees in her travels. Loved the scenes featuring Queen Victoria!
    • 3/5
      An interesting idea, but rather tediously delivered
    • 2/5
      I really enjoyed the first 1/3 of the book, when the history and the story main protagonist (Katherine) intertwine. After that I found it too convoluted and to be quite honest one of the main plot elements just didn't make sense, given the history of the stones. let alone the last page which appears to contradict itself.
    • 4/5
      Splitting the story between the past and the present this is the story of Katerine's quest for the three brothers or three brethern. A piece that was once held by the queen of england, this is a story of obsession and the history of two sets of owners of the piece.ALthough it's somewhat interesting it failed for me on some levels, possibly by trying too hard, that and Katherine being a character I disliked. I finished it but wasn't impressed.